It's been quite some time since my last post here.. Loads of things to do and just started to become normal again after non-stop work for weeks.

What a world cup this is...

With the referees taking center stage during the group and knockout stages, with an intense mixture of hapiness, frustration, unfairness and dissapointment we got to the World Cup Final...

The characteristic "easiness" of Pele before the world cup about Brazil being the undoubted favourites to win the tournament in Germany, and the similar comments about the European sides from Maradona, left them wondering what happened and their great teams got sent packing so early.

Argentina turned from underdog to favourite in one match, against the only team which was playing for no specific country, as the split of Serbia & Montenegro into two countries - during the World Cup Finals - had a detrimental effect on the player's performance.

The list with footballers who impressed in this world cup looks more like the World Cup 2002 top footballers as voted by the footballers' wives association.

No certain champions in this world cup. Brazil and England failed to play impressive football and big stars like Ronaldinho and Lampard failed to shine. It is a very natural consequence after playing so many matches in one season for their clubs.

Apart from the Brazil v France match and the wonders of French (veteran) football, nothing as spectacular during the previous matches. It is true that the Brazilian team was never seen as stressed as it was as the minutes of the match went by without managing to equalise.

Noone can underestimate the capabilities of Beckham on free-kicks. Also Crouch's, Gerrard's and Terry's capabilities in the keeper's area. But what about getting the ball down and creating an opportunity other than a free kick or a wide cross that can find Gerrard's head?

Hungary did a great job in the defense and the midfield, despite the heavy score. England simply could not pass the ball between the midfielders and the forwards. That was easy to spot out.

Don't like to slash the hopes of England fans, but things need to get much better for England to progress to the final... Every coach of the 31 other finalists knows the capabilities of beckham and the undoubted height superiority in England's forwards. Just hope Eriksson is aware of the situation (although in the press conference he was happy).

This is supposed to be the best England team in over 20 years. Can not believe that noone could put the ball down and make a good effort to get the ball to the forwards, apart from very wide crosses. It just reminds me of the current Greek team which is (sadly for me) full of veterans.

I can't imagine what would be the alternative to Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Michael Owen (and of course Rooney). Theo Walcott is a very positive move and clearly a signal on how things should move forward in the England national football team.

Parreira speaks about Roberto Carlos and Cafu, Scolari about Christiano Ronaldo, Eriksson about Rooney and so on. Those who were looking for real news to come out after all the coaches had completed their interviews were deeply dissapointed.

Are they worshipping us? Or they are trying to assert pressure on the rest of the squad?

There is a lot of misinformation going on, especially from the close environment of each manager. There is (pure) speculation that Sven is resting Rooney and will use him later, on the other hand, Sven is worried with some players' performance and the injuries are not letting him calm...

The smiles you see are only for the cameras...

Hopefully google.com will pick up as well and start sending us traffic for the right keywords. Nevertheless it is a blinding development, one which fills us with more passion to make the ultimate 100% unoficial world cup resource.

No time to write anything more here. Back to work...

After the first few hours of configuring and generally playing around all I can say is that I am "shocked and awed"! We are talking about the ultimate development platform for any type of internet/intranet applications.

Drupal 4.7 is a real beast and even though requires a lot of configuration and setting up, with a few days work you can do wonders on the web! No wonder why NASA started to use drupal for some of it's websites.

Well done guys and a big THUMBS UP! Keep up the good work!

Of course with a big legal team covering you and access to ministerial contacts it is just no big worries for them. But because I've personally spent on average 10-12 hours a day everyday for the past year or so, I find it really unfair.

Well at least it is another indicator that we have a very unique resource.

It probably has to do with all the leagues in Europe, Asia and the north/south America. The servers supporting the site can't cope with the load, and as such they will be reinforced by more machine power to handle the load. With several thousands of hits within a single minute, the current infrastructure simply can't cope.

We've been planning for this with our hosting provider during the past couple of weeks, it is just that we did not expect the site to be so popular so soon. Several more servers will be supporting World Cup Latest in a few days time from today. Please be patient until then.

However it is really impressive to note that we managed to get all this traffic without the help of Google, which still treats our site as being not valuable for it's users, while a lot of spammy sites are in it's index and even show up in the first page of their results for some queries, but will come back to this another time with example queries.

While writing this, there are hundreds of tasks for me to do before the tournament kicks-off! I also want to have my blog updated with news you can't find on our site. Things are getting better and better as the tournament nears.

There are probably hundreds of ideas for this site which we haven't had the time to do. But since those features come down to me to implement, there is only a limited amount of things a human can do. However after looking, configuring, re-configuring, adding extras, changing the design, altering the text and all those boring stuff I just didn't look the site with someone elses's perspective.

The feedback from our friends and family about the site has been unprecedented. Seriously. We have heard only a few minor complaints. All the people who frequently visit the major media sites like the BBC, Reuters, etc. have been really impressed about how the site looks.

For some reason I am still not 100% confident with how the site looks at the moment and will be constantly on the lookout for improvements until the most tiring friendlies date.

That section resembles a lot the architecture of our main site and I am not sure if this is something that should make us happy or dissappointed.

Thought it is a good point to note regarding innovation in sports news coverage. We are looking to implement many more, just wondering if this is something that should push us towards stupid patent applications to protect our innovative ideas.

I would definitely not even mention that if their move was at least somehow credited to us. Anyway, NewsNow has helped spread the word out about our articles and we are thankfull to them, as well as to Moreover.

Our newly established blog will deal with various issues and is mainly authored by the company's Technical Director, Pavlos Skoufis (yeah, that's me!).

Feel free to add your comments below of any of the messages and do let us know about your thoughts on the issues discussed. Comments will get moderated if they are off topic or aggressive.

That's all... Can't think of something more to say for now... Just news!